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What Others Say.
or T. Dorland In Christian Worker.)

value of silence. Spurgeon says to
his students, "Do you call me Qua
ker? Herein / follow George Fox
most lovingly. Brethren, rob not
not the far-down life, by formal bab-
bling among the broken shells and
foaming surges of the Shore"
In one of his Mortified conventions
D. L. Moody asked for time of silent
prayer and some twenty minutes were
so spent that were characterized a.
blessed" and powerful" Joseph
Parker, of London, says, 1T would be
we'll, if in our brief time of worship
we would set aside few moments for
absolute silence, no minister to speak,
no organ to utter its voice, no hymn to
trouble the air. If we could with shut
eyes and bowed head, spend five min.
utes in absolute speechlessness, that
would be prayer, that would be wor-
ship. The fool would misunderstand
and think nothing was being done,
but as the last expression of velocity is
rest, so the last expression of eloquence
is silence, and sometimes the highest
liturgy is to be dumb. We have ban
ished the angel of silence, the angel of
quietude is nuisance to our fussy CIV
ilization; we have set noise in the
front and silence has been exiled from
the church."
(S s. Tinnes.)
Every gift, every possession, every
attainment, that increases ones posi-
bilities of well-doing, correspondingly
increases his danger of ill-dOing. The
finer the nature, the more liable it is
to contamination and defilement. The
most delicately poised balance is the
most easily DETECTED, and therefore the
most liable to a false showing. The
very refinements of scientific methods
increase the chances of destructive er-
rors. He who is capable of making
the incest distinctions in language Is
in the greatest danger of saying what
he does not mean. 1t is because man
has virtue that men are vicious; it is
because man has reason that men are
unreasonable it is because man is
made in the image of God that men
are found in the likeness of the Devil.
Every allurement to vice ought, there
fore, to be q reminder of mans capaci-
ty for virtue; and every skeptical
doubt ought to suggest the possibilities
of personal faith. He who has been
efficient in the service of the Evil One,
ought thereby to he reminded of his
duty aid privilege of being at least as
efficient in the service of his true Lord
and Master.
Nothing at this time 30 stealthily
and powerfully threatens the stability
of our free institutions as this same
reasonable doctrine of Romanists.
that the Pope is or ought to be the civil
ruler of all nations. Be 1t remember
ed that Romanism is not only foreign
in its origin, but is alien in its allegi-
ance. Every true Roman Catholic
owes civil, as we'll as ecclesiastical,
obedience to a transatlantic sover-
eign. At this very time citizen of
the United States is under summons
to 20 to Rome to answer for offenses
com mitted in this country. He does
not 20 against his will, only because
the Pope has not power to force him.
The spirit of Romanism is inconsis-
tent with republicanism. 1t is mon
archical to the core. Why should the
Church of England have ceased at
once, at the close of the Revolutiona-
ry War, to exercise authority in this
country, while the Church of Rome
holds increasing power here until this
day?